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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Crafts

Artefactual evidence

Experimental reconstruction

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

More comparative studies

Conferences

Recording artefacts in situ

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Documentary record search

Experimental Archaeology

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Comparing excavated sites

Just digging